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its a link forwarder that tells your browser to ping an external server for a font.
but what is the server doing besides serving up fonts?
it's noticing who clicked on the webm file, and recording who shared it with whom and where.
it's basically a google link and AI database builder
i asked a long time ago to some web expert if there was any networking code in webm's or webp's and they said no.
i can play these files offline as well though, so what's up with that?
The file itself doesn't do anything but play video. However the program that reads it will determine how to call the internet, if there are instructions to do that. There are instructions in the file for example that calls for a remote font to be used. This call is similar to how spammers/marketers get you to open a pixel or image embedded in the email. It tells them the email was opened and by whom, by the unwitting recipient.
Its traitorware.
Not always but it has the inherently capability by design.
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